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Documentary sources
Japan's Decision for War: Records of the 1941 Policy Conferences translated, edited and introduced by Nobutaka Ike (Stanford University Press, 1967)
Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War: A Brief History with Documents and Essays edited and introduced by Akira Iriye (Bedford, 1999)
Books
Deterrent Diplomacy: Japan, Germany and the USSR 1935-1940 edited by James William Morley (Columbia University Press, 1976)
The Fateful Choice: Japan's Advance into Southeast Asia edited by James W Morley (Columbia University Press, 1980)
Japan and the Wider World: From the mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present by Akira Iriye (Longman, 1997)
Japanese Imperialism 1894-1945 by WG Beasley (Clarendon Press, 1991)
The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific by Akira Iriye (Longman, 1987)
Pearl Harbor Reexamined: Prologue to the Pacific War edited by Hilary Conroy and Harry Wray (University of Hawaii, 1990)
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John Dower (Pantheon Books, 1986)
About the author
Dr Susan Townsend lived in Kobe, Japan, in 1991-2, and now teaches modern Japanese history at the University of Nottingham. Her monograph on the philosopher Miki Kiyoshi, the architect of the philosophical principles of the New Order in Asia, is to be published soon.
Published: 2004-06-09
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